Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 15 January 1909 — Page 3

RAILROAD BULLETIN ERIE. Into Effect Sunday dune 21, 1908. Eaetbound. No. Br—Daily 5:28 a.m. No. 12—Daily 2:00 a.m. No. 22—Dally, ex. Sunday. .2:00 p. m. No. 4—Daily 3:28 p.m. Weettxxind. No. 7—Daily ....1:52a.m. No. 9—Daily .......... 3:12a.m. No. 3—Daily 12:48 p.m. No. 21—IMIly, ex. Sunday.. 10:10 p . m L No. lE— Dally 7:30p.m. GRAND RAPIDS & INDIANA. South Bound. No. B—Daily 12:47 a.m. No. 12 —Daily, ex. Sunday..7:lßa.m. No. 2 —Daily, ex. Sunday.. .1:11 p. m. No. 18—Sunday only 8:36 p.m. North Bound. No. s—Daily 1:28a.m. No. 7—Daily 7:57 a.m. No. 3—Dally, ex. Sunday.. .3-07 p. m. T. ST. L. A W. R. R. No. 3 —Frankfort to Toledo, Ex Sunday 11:27 a. m. No. I—Toledo to Frankfort. Ex. Sunday 11:49 a. m. No. 3—Delphos to St. Louis, Dally 7:21 a. m. No. 4 —fH. Loots to Delphos DaMy 8:63 p. m. No. s—Toledo to St. LouU. daSy — ...10:17 p.m. No. B—St Lotto to Toledo, dailp .—.2:05 a.m.

• Daily Interurban Schedule THE FT. WAYNE & SPRINGFIELD Trains Lears Trains Leave Decatur FL Wayne 5:50 a.m. 7:00 a.m. 7:00a.m. 8:30a.m. 8:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 10:00a.m. 11:30a.m. ; 11:30 a.m. 1:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 3:30 p. m. 4:00 p. m. 4:00p.m. 5:30 p.na 5:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. 8:30 p.m. 9:30 p.m. 11:00 p.m. Theater parties taking the 7:00 p. m. ear will arrive at Calhoun or Berry streets, Fort Wayne at 8:10 p. m. The last car leaving Fort Wayne at ’11:00 p. m. will wait uatll after the show. WEATHER I Snow flurries or rain tonight or ■Saturday; rising temperature SaturB days Don’t pay unnecessary and wasteful of old system dealers. Try f the new. See Charles Hendricks, Decatur, Ind. Phone 580. o ■CIGAR SALESMAN WANTED— In E your locality to represent us. ExL'penence unnecessary; sllO per mo. Kand expenses. Write for particulars. .Monarch Cigar Co., St. Louis, Mo. *************** : * * : the : {GRAND-: « * HS One of the finest shows ever * ||L come to the city. Don't forget w ♦ * * TONIGHT * * First film—Right of Seignor; * • Two Affinities. HE Second film—Theßunaway Van; w |K With the Traveling Menagerie. « Song —In Dreams of U. S. A * ' Z —— ♦ Everybody goes to the Grand. « • * ♦ ♦*♦*♦*♦***♦***

K Znl •al I zi fc ® I I - i yy> Vi *i APFN A CHECKING ACCOUNT with us bow and commence 1909 on a genuine business basis. Then you will know to a eent the respective costs of living, will be free from all disputes as to payment and Will greatly better your business reputation. Would you Investigate? Old Adams County Bank

Mrs. C. L. Meibers was in Fort ayne last evening and came home on the last car. A dance will be given at the K. C. hall in the near future, and no doubt many will attend. Adam Schafer went to Fort Wayne this morning to remain for some time on a business mission. J. S. Lower was in the city today looking after (business affairs and has returned to his home. Editor Fred Rohrer, of Berne, was in the city today looking after business affairs and visiting friends. Dr. Wilcox will deliver interesting sermons Sunday morning and evening and no doubt many will hear him. E. C. Egly, of Berne, was in the city today looking after business interests and has returned to his home. Prosecutor Heller has returned from a business trip to Fort Wayne where he was looking after legal affairs. The meetings at the Presbyterian are bringing out a great many people, both members of the church and others. The sidewalks were slippery today and several people have been reported as sustaining falls, although no one was seriously injured. E. M. Ray, of Berne, was in the city today in the'lnterest of the Berne Witness company, and returned to his home on the afternoon train. Interest increases at the publi library with the passing of each day, and the number of readers increases steadily. It is a great institution. There will be a meeting of the Ben Hur lodge tonight and every member is urgently requested to be present. Important business is to be transacted. Dal Wandel, of Bluffton, was In the city a few hours today on his way home from Geneva, where he attended the funeral of Mrs. Pelham which occurred yesterday. County Commissioner Martin Laughlin is reported as being somewhat improved from his sick spell and it is to be hoped that he will be fully recovered soon. Mrs. B. A. Richards died suddenly at Huntington Wednesday. Three weeks ago Mrs. Richards submitted to a surgical operation in a Fort Wayne hospital for goitre. A most delightful dance was enjoyed at the C. B. L. of I. hall last night and many couples were present to trip the light fantastic until the wee hours of the morning. The masons are making much headway in the construction of the new building being erected by the Schafer Hardware company, and it will be a mammoth concern when completed. Dr. Homer E. Sowers will graudate from the American School of Osteopathy January twenty-third at Kirksville, Missouri, after which he will return to Decatur to resume his practice. An interesting meeting was held by the K. P. lodge last night. The members of the order are anxiously awaiting the time that construction bebins on their new home, which is to be constructed in the near future. Mrs. Dick Burrell disposed of the city newstand to Chester Hitsman, who came here from Logansport some time ago. The nw proprietor has assumed possession and his many friends wish for him much success in his new field of labor. The luneral of the late Margaret Meiand will be held from the St. Marys church tomorrow morning at 9 o’clock and many of her friends will be present to pay their last respects to the memory of the estimable woman. Interment will be made at the St. Joseph cemetery. Frank Cottrell of Berne, was a. business visitor in this city Thursday. He is one of the attorneys in the suit of Paille vs. Schwartz et al, venued to this county from Adams county. The case will be tried beginning Tuesday of next week. —Portland Commercial-Review. Sheriff Lipkey returned from Indianapolis yeste'day, where he has been watching the United States senatorial fight for the past few days. He also attended the meeting of the sheriffs of the state yesterday. At this meeting the sheriffs decided to ask the legislature to pass a bill permitting the sheriffs to have ins and outs fees. This would mean that the officers now in would receive considerable back pay. Mr. Lipkey is taking no active part in the matter. —Bluffton Banner. The case of Miss Gertrude Wilkinson, who demands damages in the sum of $20,000 from Paul Meyers, the ycung son of a Leesburg mrechant, rs on trial at Warsaw. The incident leading up to the case occurred in October, 1907, when Meyers was a lad in short trousers. It is alleged that he entered the Wilkinson home where Miss Wilkinson was seated upon a piano stool and pulled the Stool from beneath her, causing her to fall and sustain spinal injuries which are claimed to be permanent. t

Cal Peterson was a Fort Wayne visitor last evening. Jacob Kuser was in the city today transacting important business. L. G. Ellingham returned last evening from a business trip to Fort Wayne. Mrs. Florence DeVilbiss is confined to her room and bed, suffering a few of the agonies of a real case of lagrippe. Differences between the employer and the girls in the mitten factory at Bluffton, caused the latter tor-quit their placgp. Joseph M. Haley, one of the bright ycung attorneys of the Fort Wayne bar, was looking after an' interested case in the Adams circuit court today. Within half an hour Tuesday afternoon Judge Cook, at Huntington, granted divorces to Henry Hockensmith, Mrs. Goldie Broom and Mrs. Dora Handwork. Rev. J. D. Belt, a superannuated minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, died Wednesday at his home in Leesburg after an illness of four years from kidney trouble. Mrs. Levi Baker who, for a week past, has been seriously ill from a siege of malarial fever and la grippe Is slightly improved today, although her condition is still critical. Albert E. Scott, a member of the Adams county bar was, upon motion of Charles E. Lake, admitted to the Tippecanoe county bar recently. Mr. Scott resides at Lafayette and Is a promising attorney. Because the undertaker who had charge of the funeral failed to secure the proper permit for burial, the remains of Mrs. Matilda Hindman of Hartford City, are to be disinterred and exhumed to satisfy a requirement of the law. A very interesting show was given at the Grand last night and a goodly number of people witnessed it to their entire satisfaction. The music furnished during the performance is of the high character and pleases every one. They have a good one for tonight. Despondent because of the lonliness and emptiness of life as he found it, without a relative or Intimate friend to cheer his declining years, Rice Thompson, 89 years old, until three weeks ago a resident of Elkhart, and possessed of abundant means to provide for his every need, ended his life in South Bend Wednesday by inhaling illuminating gas. Report is current in this city of the approaching marriage of Durvin Fitzpartick, older son of Clerk of the Supreme Court E. V. Fitzpatrick of Indianapolis. The bride-to-be is a Muncie young lady and the wedding is expected same time during the summer. Durvin moved from Portland with his parents, a year or so ago and since locating in Indianapolis is engaged in the practice of law. — Portland Sun.

A' HERE is scarcely a home but what will feel the effects of Il 1 W&S tne anßua l overflow of books which usually happens about ] \ L&Jzhizfl the 25th of December. Books are sold and distributed 1 : ’ n d ur * n g the holiday season by the thousands. Many A IJ: of them are rare and expensive publications, with delicate bindings. Nearly all of them are worth preserving, if'not for .b '-..Jt •’ : l!l th eir intrinsic merit —at least for the sake of association so i i vve seldom throw books away—wc cherish them as friends. F° r t^iat reason we Eke to see them well housed. If they ? are left exposed on the table more than a day or so, they soon ' j||!J ' ' l! |j|i| ll, !V t l' i ' i 'ip show evidence of soil. <3 If they are worth protecting at all, let 11 1 them have the best protection possible — such as is afforded by The 19 lobe “Elastic” BOOK Case ML You can get whole section for a trifle more than the cost of one book — sufficient to hold A Jl twenty or more books. Make your .sele&ion \ while you have a choice as to finish, of which Z -■ j | - .there‘are. eight'different kinds in-quartered.oak / .4- / j I and mahogany-—dull and polish. I 1 I held for Christmas delivery. 1 H wZ We . ship to any points. freight .charges paid. \ j I W "The House of Quality” AUTHOR IZE DA GE C WEB BROTHERS AND REINKING

Mrs. J. E. Moser still shows signs of improvement, and her friends are again hoping for the best. Esq. Armentrout, of Geneva, was here today looking after business, a part of which was in the circuit court. Ned L. Baker, a well known Garrett young man, is dead of tuberculosis. He had nearly completed his law studies at Indiana university when his health failed. Ella LaPolnte, the Indian woman convicted at Bluffton of the murder of Mrs. Florence Besancon, is said to be a model prisoner in the woman's prison at Indianapolis. The Indiana Union Traction company has submitted a bid for lighting the streets at Marion and furnishing electric current for private lighting and power in that city. In the apportionment oi state school revenues on a basis of $1.69 per capita, Allen county with 7,254 children of schocl age, outside the city of Fort Wayne, receives $12,231.70. The winter is nearly gone, and but little if any ice has been harvested by those who sell or have use for it. We will have to have a new bill of fare *in the weather line if the ice men have any reasons to rejoice. William Gunter, residing near Packerton, Koseiusko county, was acquitted by a jury of a charge of assault and battery with intent to commit murder, preferred by his brother, Zachary Gunter. The jury was out one hour. Paul Weber, of Huntington, has submitted to a surgical operation for the removal of a bullet which was fired into his hand fifteen months ago by the accidental discharge of a rifle. He says he will wear the extracted bullet foi a watch charm. Supt. J. C. Curtis, of the C. B. & C. was in Bluffton today from Huntington looking after business matters. Mr. Curtis expressed himself as feeling pretty confident that the C. B. & C. will be extended on the south the coming season and says that Versailles, Ohio, will be the objective point of the terminal. —Bluffton News. J. W. Tribelet, who was in Muncie yesterday, conducted an investigation and secured cards for the adoption of a new system of cataloging Fairview cemetery. The card system will Be used on much the same plan as in a library or other business and there will be a card telling the exact location of every lot and every grave on each lot. —Bluffton News. A representative of a fire extinguisher concern was in the city last night and on the corner of Madison and Second streets, demonstrated the merits of the device manufactured by the house he represents. Saturating combustible material with kerosene he ignited same and when the blaze was at its best, he extinguished it in a very few seconds. He was consequently the recipient of a number of inquiries in regard to the device.

Ralph Tyndall was kept from school a few days on account of illness. W. V. Buckmaster, of Geneva, transacted business in Decatur today and has returned to his home. Ed Vanci! went to Monroe this afternoon on his regular business trip and returned this afternoon on the three o’clock train. There was another conversation at the Mission hall last night and the revival meeting now in session is decidedly successful. The members are making a protracted effort. The Democrat has received many inquiries about the book of the laws of Indiana, which we intend to give to our subscribers, and there is already a big demand for the valuable publication. Miss Kate Hammell, who spent the past few months at the home of her brother-in-law, Charles B. Smith and wife, Second street, left Thursday morning for her home at Decatur. — Portland Sun. Harold Wilcox Is making all preparations to leave for his new home at St. Louis, Michigan. He will leave early Monday morning. His many staunch friends in the city regret to See him leave their midst. Miss Alice Green, South Meridian street, Miss Mary McCrum, east Walnut street, were in Geneva, on Thursday attending the funeral services of Mrs. Frank Pelham, which took i place during the afternoon.—Portland Sun. Messrs. Fred Rohrer, Jeff Lehman, Menno Burkhalter, Eli Luginbill, Elmer Neuenschwander, E. M. Ray, Revs. J. W. Cleever, Amstutz. F. Hartman and Benjamin, Jacob and Abraham Habegger, of Berne, were in the city today looking after business affairs, and returned to their homes on the afternoon train. Cards have been received in the city announcing the marriage of Mabel Clare, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Edwards of Weedsport, New York, to Arthur Stewart Rising of the same place, the wedding having occurred December thirtieth, 1908. Mr. Edwards, father of the bride, will be remembered as being the first su-' perintendent of the electric light works in Decatur, and he and family are well known by tetany Decatur residents. May the newly wedded couple prosper is the wish of the many friends of the family. Mrs. Carrie Hillinger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Botthoff, is suffering much pain as a result of sustaining a broken arm yesterday, while alighting from a sleigh. She had driven to the home of Henry Stevens in the west part of the city, to attend the funeral of the Gaskill baby, and as she was dismounting from the vehicle, her foot was caught in some manner and she was thrown to the ground with great force, her left arm being broken at the elbow as a consequence. A physician was hastily summoned and the fracture cared for.

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A meeting will be held at Modern Woodmen hall Friday night for the purpose of the organization of a degree team which will begin practice at once. There is very good material to select from and Forester, Wolford expects to get the boys in good trim for work In the near future. It will be remembered that the annual log rolling will be held in Decatur, and the local team will compete for the prize in drill work.

MEETINGS AT U. B. CHURCH. Much interest is being manifest at the revival! meetings now in progress at the U. B. church. There is a manifest inclination to reformation. Two splendid young people made the start for the better last night. The meetings will continue over the Sabbath. The public is cordially invited to attend the services. Come and help in the good work.